God, I hate my TI - The Unofficial Access Virus & Virus TI Forum

Boyler · #1 21.03.2006, 04:26 PM

I have so much trouble with this damn thing that it's practically useless. I've had it since it came out and I haven't been able to use it in one f*cking production. Hanging notes, nowhere close to proper arp sync regardless of workarounds, drifting delay in terms of both tempo and pitch, sudden huge delay on all MIDI data, different timing on instruments when using more than one, turning value 1 through value 3 knobs beneath the Polar's display do not write automation, complete silence requiring TI Control to be re-opened which means loosing settings unless previously saved... It goes on. I won't list all the problems I have with it, but I'm not exaggerating when I say I have all problems mentioned in these forums and then some. No OS updates have come close to solving *any* of these symptoms for me. Stuff like the sync problem just... Changed. Access made a reasonable attempt to help me in the beginning. I followed their advice and continued to send them overly detailed descriptions of my problems to be as helpful as possible, but they eventually gave up on me. I think they just assumed a new OS would solve my problems, but this is a couple of months ago now.

Yeah, sure, I could use it as a regular synth with MIDI, but I sold my friggin' Virus C Kb *for* the bloody TI technology!

I'm going to wait for one more OS update, and if that doesn't solve most problems, I'm selling the TI and never taking a second look at Access products out of sheer, frustration and anger.

At this point I would rather have an Andromeda A6 or RADIAS.

Threlly · #2 21.03.2006, 04:36 PM

Your not trying to use it with Nuendo are you ?

dr. orange · #3 21.03.2006, 05:08 PM

Hi Boyler,
I can feel your frustration. Although access would disclaim this, I'd say that the first batch of viri have many hardware bugs. If you have that much problams, why don't you return it and take one of the newer editions? I got one and I do have problems, but they aren't that numberous as yours...

good luck and (hopefully anytime soon) have fun with your virus

Drammy · #4 21.03.2006, 05:40 PM

As Threlly says though you can never be sure if you're running an unsupported sequencer!

Nuendo is unsupported.

nutekk · #5 21.03.2006, 08:10 PM

its funny...
nuendo wasnt always unsupported.
i had "chats" with the access team in early november about some problems i was having and they new i was using nuendo...they didnt
say hey nuendo is unsupported.
this came out later.

in fact i bet some discussions with TK on this forum even show this.
saying its not supported is an easy way of getting rid of a problem.
Nuendo is SX ...the core is the same.
my ti has the same problems with nuendo as it does with sx.

dr. orange · #6 21.03.2006, 08:49 PM

There ARE changes between several VTI batches! Obviously the blue colour on the panel of VTI Desktop and Keyboard isn't the same. I got a version of the newest batch, and the blue isn't as shiny anymore as it used to be in the older versions, and I am sure that there are changes on the hardware side as well. I don't experience much of the bugs people seem to have still with OS 1.09. There are some minor bugs, but nothing to prevent me from working...